Wow, big flickr change...

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Was this just today? Flickr has finally joined the 21st century with infinite scrolling and a cleaner layout. Plus, a terabyte of storage. They gave me some crap header photo, though... don't like that they made some random choice for me, instead of leaving it blank.

[edit] Wait, not infinite... just really long. Come on, if Picasa can do it, I don't see what Flickr's problem is....
 
Horrible interface.

I won't argue it needed a little sprucing; but this current makeover is absolutely hideous.

Yes you can change the top bar, and yet in order for us to get this 'gift' we have to relinquish the 'clean' look flickr once had.

Collections has been brushed under some proverbial rug, image information has given way so all the images just blur into one mess.

The user front page (where you get updates, such as comments) has been given a FB makeover which is again messy.

At the very least there should be an option for users to switch to a classic view if they wish - alas that would be asking to much..

Current version: :bang:
 
I like it on the whole, I think.

One thing I definitely do not like is the new slideshow. I don't want automatic zooming in and moving around of my photos. I'd prefer that they are seen as intended -- whole, and stationary.
 
I haven't got words to say how bad it is.

I presume it's designed for people who use tablets and other touch/swipe devices. It works incredibly clumsily for me using a screen/mouse/keyboard.

Dumping such a massive interface change with no notice to your user base is clumsy and thoughtless beyond belief! What were they thinking? big Big BIG mistake is imposing a whole look without offering options, rather than offering a whole new look as an option extra to the way things were.

I'm now forced to have my 'stream presented the way Flickr wants it, not the way I want it. I want options in how I present my stream.

It takes multiple clicks to get to a pic to edit it title tags and whatnot.. then I have to scroll up and down to see it and the things I'm editing.

It's incredibly slow. My (fast) i7 6GB laptop pants and blows as all the rivers of images keep loading.

It works badly with Opera again (just when it had been stable for about 2 years)

I want options to show thumbs or small images or in fact whatever the size of image I want, not this bombardment of stuff.

Why have they just allocated some random "pretty picture" as a big strap across the top of my stream? WTF?

I could go on and on. I'm so so so pissed off
 
johnwolf said:
Collections were central to my structure, but I don't see them. Am I missing something?

John
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They have been demoted. To find them

YOU > then look for the . . . on the far right, click which will bring up the likes of Map and Collections.

I was the same, I had my page set up for collections, not sets. The new UI doesn't even let you change the top bar from the preset 'Sets' to Collections, which would at least be /something/.

The way I see it, this is geared for the FB / Windoze 8 user, and too me seems Flickr is after the mobile market.
 
I think it says a lot about the way Flickr is heading.

It was supposed to be about the photos and indeed communities. Now, it looks like a horrible mish-mash between Facebook, Instagram and tumblr (which I understand Yahoo recently acquired).

I think the main mistake here was loosing the layout in terms of the photo's.
- By all means play around with the rest of it, add new features, but that core of Sets and Collections, with a nice clean layout was what kept me at flickr, instead of going to the likes of 500px.

No, for me they have messed around with something that was not really broken and didn't need to be changed in the way it was.
 
Underaglassbell said:
They have been demoted. To find them

YOU > then look for the . . . on the far right, click which will bring up the likes of Map and Collections.

I was the same, I had my page set up for collections, not sets. The new UI doesn't even let you change the top bar from the preset 'Sets' to Collections, which would at least be /something/.

The way I see it, this is geared for the FB / Windoze 8 user, and too me seems Flickr is after the mobile market.
Click to expand...

Thanks. I see my collection, but my point is they seem to no longer have an organizational role.

John
 
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